Question

Decribe Mrs Sullivan teaching method

Answer 1

When Miss Sullivan met Helen for the first time she took Helen in her arms. She gave her a doll that she had brought from the Perkins institution. Some little blind children had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it. Miss Sullivan began with the teaching of manual alphabet. The first word she taught Helen was d-o-l-l . She spelled the letters on Helen 's fingers . Different positions on the fingers stood for different letters . Miss Sullivan held Helen's fingers lightly in her hand while she made the signs . Helen did not at that time know that she was spelling a word . She was simply making her fingers go in exact imitation of the signs made by miss Sullivan with her fingers.